Letter to the homoeopathic physicians of the United States : presented to the American Institute of Homoeopathy / by B. F. Joslin.

  • Joslin, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1796-1861.
Date:
[1855]
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Credit: Letter to the homoeopathic physicians of the United States : presented to the American Institute of Homoeopathy / by B. F. Joslin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    j^L^ (fi. fi LETTER HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS OF THE UNITED STATES. PRESENTED TO THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY BY B. F. JOSLIN, M. D. Medical Brethren:— In endeavoring to fulfill the duty of addressing you on some topics designated by our National Society, I believe it will be in accordance with the spirit of their resolution, to offer some thoughts on The Advancement of Medical Science, and especially on HOMCEOPATHY, CONSIDERED AS IMPROVABLE. Your practice is a continual confirmation of the fundamental law of therapeutics. The verification of this law, however, by Hahne- mann and his successors, are already so numerous, that compara- tively little can be added to the extreme probability of its universality by any new clinical observations. It is not chiefly in this direction that you are to labor for the advancement of medical science; though by the repetition of verifications you may promote its diffusion among those who hitherto remain skeptical. The law of cure, and some obvious inferences from it being established, but the curative property of the great mass of material agents being still undiscovered, your more useful efforts in advancing the healing art will not often be in searching for new principles, but for new facts—not for new methods of employing known remedies, but for new remedies to be employed under the guidance of princi- ples with which you are already familiar. The term new is not here intended to exclude the hitherto undiscovered properties of drugs, partially proved. Revealing the functions still latent in one